Results for "childhood"

This is the $30 Knight Rider K.I.T.T. USB Car Charger available from ThinkGeek. It plugs into a car's 12V power socket/cigarette lighter and has two USB charging ports. Plus it lights up and talks. However it will NOT drive your car for you, although I convinced my roommate ... / Continue →

These are some of the charts and graphs created by Michigan State University computer science graduate student Randal S. Olson (links to his page with waaaay more in depth information) showing the quickest way to spot Waldo in the seven main Where's Waldo books. You know, why... / Continue →

Damn, Predator!
This is an old orthodontics timelapse of an 11-year old with a serious case of the snaggletooth getting her teeth straightened with braces over an 18-month period. I had braces when I was a kid. Plus headgear. I had an underbite so bad I couldn't pull my top... / Continue →

This is the mech warrior playhouse built by Alabama dad and NASA scientist Jim Martin for his children. The playhouse is based off the Mad Cat, a mech from the analog (read: paper-and-pencil based) role-playing game MechWarrior. Could you imagine growing up with a mech warrio... / Continue →

This is an emotional, minute-long video of LeVar Burton responding to the news that the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter reached it's $1-million funding goal in less than a day. Currently, the campaign has collected $1,854,000, with 34 days remaining. Clearly people care about chi... / Continue →

This is a video of the Carnegie Hall Ensemble Orchestra performing 43 separate cartoon theme songs in five minutes. Just a bit of each song though, not the whole thing. That would have taken way longer. Like me getting dressed this morning. "You still only have one pant leg... / Continue →

This is the $75 Fisher-Price Ipad Apptivity Seat (already in existence: an iPad potty chair). It's a baby chair with an iPad dock that dangles over your little bundle of bad vision. Will it help your child grow up to be a technology professional? No. Will it give them somet... / Continue →

Forts, not farts. Squishy farts are totally different and, at least in my experience, often result in running to the bathroom to check your underwear.
These (the blue pieces) are Squishy Forts, modular pillow fort construction kits designed by Ross Currie (and not Marie Curie... / Continue →

Four years after his much plumper brother Mario (Lou Albano) took the warp pipe, Luigi (Danny Wells) from the late 80's/early 90's Super Mario Bros Super Show has passed away. He was 72. He is survived by the lovechild he and Princess Peach had that Mario thought was his. Re... / Continue →